Conclusion. Rome became the most powerful state in the world by the first century BCE through a combination of military power, political flexibility, economic expansion, and more than a bit of good luck. This expansion changed the Mediterranean world and also changed Rome itself.

As legend has it, Rome was founded in 753 B.C. by Romulus and Remus, twin sons of Mars, the god of war. Rome’s era as a monarchy ended in 509 B.C. with the overthrow of its seventh king, Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, whom ancient historians portrayed as cruel and tyrannical, compared to his benevolent predecessors.

The Romans are the people who originated from the city of Rome in modern day Italy. Rome was the centre of the Roman Empire – the lands controlled by the Romans, which included parts of Europe (including Gaul (France), Greece and Spain), parts of North Africa and parts of the Middle East.

The Etruscans

So the Romans were there around 1.500 years before there were Vikings. The Viking age lasted four hundred years from 700 to 1100AD, and the Roman era lasted for one to two thousand years from 550BC to 450 and to 1450AD.

Although a confrontation between them would have been an epic battle for the ages, the Vikings and Romans never fought each other. Through its military conquests, the Roman Empire expanded as quickly as its mighty armies could mow down enemy soldiers and march through newly conquered lands.

Thus it is impossible for western Romans before 476 AD to ever encounter vikings since no Scandinavians ever went on viking raids to Roman territories until after the western Roman Empire fell. But Roman citizens and subjects and Scandinavians did meet sometimes.

In the middle of the 9th century, the Viking raiders Hastein and Bjorn Ironsides used a clever ruse to attack what they thought was the most important city in Europe. There was just one problem—they weren’t actually in Rome.

The Mongols started their expansion out of Mongolia with Genghis Khan in the early years of the 13th century. So no, there was no Mongol-Viking encounter.

Alauddin sent an army commanded by his brother Ulugh Khan and the general Zafar Khan, and this army comprehensively defeated the Mongols, with the capture of 20,000 prisoners, who were put to death.

Mongol incursions in the Holy Roman Empire took place in the spring of 1241 and again in the winter of 1241–42. They were part of the first great Mongol invasion of Europe. The Mongols did not advance far into the Holy Roman Empire and there was no major clash of arms on its territory.

While both were fierce and feared warriors in their own right, Spartans would have won. Their weaponry is believed to be lesser than Viking era grade stuff, but the Vikings rarely created their own armor or weapons.

Vikings can shoot at the Spartans since Spartans don’t believe in long range warfare, but that won’t work out too well in the end. Round 2: Vikings were excellent fighters, much like Spartans. In comparison, Spartans fought in larger scale battles as a united and organized force.

Originally Answered: Who would win a fight, a Spartan or a samurai? Samurai had guns, they would kick the Spartans ass. Also, better armor means that the spartan can barely hurt the samurai, while the samurai has much less difficulty hurting the Spartan.

The knight is the probable winner. The knight looses out every time. The armor weighs too much and is a burden to work with. The viking would crush the Knight and if the knight was on a horse, all that is needed is to knock him off the horse.

Vikings would win with brute force. Ninjas would win by cutting onions and blinding the Vikings and then killing them.

During a “1-1” fight, the samurai can win easily. There are 4 reasons: 1- Samurai could possess 2 swords (katana and wakizashi). Ninja usually did not carry any swords.

The Norman knights won in 1066, due to better professional fighting techniques, not strength. And this fight ended the Viking Age in the West. First the Anglo-Saxons beat the Vikings, and just after that they lost against the Norman cavalry of professional knights.

Medieval Knights: 12 of the Best

• Sir William Marshal – ‘The Greatest Knight that Ever Lived’
• Richard I – ‘The Lionhearted’
• Sir William Wallace.
• Sir James Douglas – ‘The Black Douglas’
• Bertrand du Guesclin – ‘The Eagle of Brittany’
• Edward of Woodstock – ‘The Black Prince’
• Sir Henry Percy – ‘Hotspur’

The aim of Knights is too protect and keep the king or Lord safe and their land. Wealthy Vikings could afford metal amour like helmets with nose bridges and chain mail. Vikings would use swords, axes, shields, spears and bow and arrows. But most of them just used a shield and either an axe or a spear.

The samurai would use his kanabo to smash the vikings shield and break it. The viking has a chance though, as the samurai could be too focused on his shield leaving himself open to being stabbed by the sword. If they fight with katana and two-handed axe respectively, there is little chance for the samurai.

5 feet five inches

The average Viking was 8-10 cm (3-4 inches) shorter than we are today. The skeletons that the archaeologists have found, reveals, that a man was around 172 cm tall (5.6 ft), and a woman had an average height of 158 cm (5,1 ft).

Samurai are the most well-known class of people in Ancient Japan. Samurai were noble warriors fighting evil and defending the country. Their armor and sword were sacred, and they lived by a strict moral code. The code, named “bushido” governed their entire life.

The role of the samurai in peacetime declined gradually over this period, but two factors led to the end of samurai: the urbanization of Japan, and the end of isolationism. Many Japanese, including lower class samurai, grew dissatisfied with the shogunate because of the worsening economic conditions.